Administrative/Regulatory
Bush Taps Clement for Solicitor General Post
By Brent Kendall
WASHINGTON - Acting Solicitor General Paul D. Clement should soon be able to drop his temporary job title. President Bush on F...
Criminal
Lawyers Debate Former Executive's Integrity in Closing Arguments
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Embattled former McKesson executive Richard Hawkins is a man of the highest integrity who has been wrongly ac...
Labor/Employment
Employment Lawyers Love Their Increasing Class Actions
By Allison Schifani
LOS ANGELES - When San Francisco U.S. District Judge Martin J. Jenkins granted class status to all female employees of Wal-Mar...
Appellate Practice
Sex Offender Should Go Free, Panel Rules
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RIVERSIDE - A sex offender should be freed from Atascadero State Hospital because a Riverside County deputy district attorney ...
Judges and Judiciary
Disgraced Judge Jailed for Violating Home Detention Rules
By Staff Writer
SAN JOSE - Former Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Danser spent three days in jail last week after he violated...
LOS ANGELES - A federal magistrate judge on Friday blocked attorney Stephen Yagman's attempts to depose a Daily Journal report...
SAN FRANCISCO - California's Insurance Commissioner is looking for an angle to appeal a court ruling that leaves California t...
Judges and Judiciary
Judge Officer Discovers Her Aptitude for Criminal Cases
By Liz Valsamis
LOS ANGELES - While teaching U.S. Supreme Court case law to her class of 16-year-old high-school students in Connecticut, Holl...
Administrative/Regulatory
FBI Needn't Rush to Turn Over Details of Probe
By Robert Selna
SAN FRANCISCO - The FBI need not expedite the release of documents explaining its investigation of hundreds of Muslims and in...
SAN FRANCISCO - When attorneys Michael Mendelson and Wayne Lesser tipped off San Francisco officials in 1992 that a major pro...
Judges and Judiciary
9th Circuit Votes to Review Sentencing Question En Banc
By Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The turmoil over federal sentencing guidelines took a new turn late Friday with an announcement by the 9th U.S...
INDUSTRIAL STOCKTON - Fleenor Co. Inc. signed a 10-year, $3.1 million lease for 130,200 square feet of warehouse space at 4201...
LOS ANGELES - Do you want fries with that lawsuit? To the chagrin of late-night snackers, club-goers and other lovers of egg-t...
Forum Column - By Ray Jurado - A prosecutor's job is to represent the people - and to do justice. Doing justice means that the...
Labor/Employment
Plaintiffs' Boilerplate Pleadings Come Back to Haunt in SLAPP Case
By Columnist
Employment Column - By Martin L. Pitha - When we last heard about them, a group of people who anonymously posted negative rema...
Focus Column - Litigation - By Gregg A. Farley and Kimberly H. Clancy - In the unending battle to keep guns out of the hands o...
LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for G.G. Baumen, a Los Angeles sole practitioner for six decades. Baumen died of hear...
Criminal
San Bernardino Prosecutor Dies in Head-On Car Collision
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Jennifer L. Brooks, a San Bernardino deputy district attorney and daughter of an Orange County Superior Cou...
SAN FRANCISCO - After nine years at the helm of Farella Braun & Martel, tax and business attorney William Schlinkert has a...
LOS ANGELES - A federal magistrate judge will hear arguments today about whether civil-rights attorney Stephen Yagman can ques...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has settled a lawsuit over a lay chaplain's expulsion from county jail by a...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Oakland Diocese could be forced to pay much higher damage awards to victims of priests' sexual abuse as a ...
LOS ANGELES - As both trial lawyer and manager at Los Angeles' Morrison & Foerster, Maren E. Nelson spent the last dozen y...
SAN FRANCISCO - In two terms on the Santa Cruz Board of Supervisors, Jeff Almquist developed a reputation as an environmentali...
LOS ANGELES - Jesse James Hollywood was "polite, respectful and concerned" following his capture in Brazil and his transfer to...
SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has thrown out a lawsuit against San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera that accused him of breach...
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Superior Court Judge Mary Morgan issued a tentative order Thursday providing greater transparenc...
SAN FRANCISCO - When the 700 lawyer Pillsbury Winthrop announced it would merge with the 300 lawyer Shaw Pittman, leaders of b...
LOS ANGELES - A San Diego entrepreneur and stem-cell supporter on Thursday offered $1 million to a Florida man to keep his bra...
INDUSTRIAL MANTECA - Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP arranged a $13.2 million construction loan for Hunsaker Development's Manteca...